Recording of Eric Lyon's The afterbirth of appollo. This work is for electronics and has a lot of noise elements. The synthetic sounds are harsh and posses an analog sound. This sound feels continuous and even though there is movement in the sound, the construction continues to stay the same. There is a true representation of electronic sound in this work, instead of shying away from the noise, this work embraces it and explores the importance of balance and musical transitions.

Recording of Philippe Ménard's Rep-à-quatre. This piece is inspired by François Rabelais and his satire, grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. On a technical level, most of the sound material comes from samples of the texts (ASR 10 sampler) and the musical organization is managed by the MAX software, my improvising assistant.

Recording of Ulrich Süsse's Les Vusions. Rabelais' ideologies and visions are musically represented in this piece. This is done by building structures and walking away from them. The structures are taken from the sound (preferably from a precise vocal) and the continuation of the language of Rabelais. There is the use of everyday normal objects, but the technique of electronic transformation demonstrate direction and transition.

Recording of Georg Katzer's L'Oracle de la Dive Bouteiller. This work is for actors and tapes. The nonsense lyrics are taken from the wonderful "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Rabelais. There is a very important use of space, the sounds are at times isolated to where you may hear two different sounds on both sides, instead of predominantly in the center of the stereo system.

Recording of Michel Redolfi's Songes drôlatiques. Audio and visual suite inspired by the "Drolatic Dreams" of Rabelais' Pantagruel. The sound production calls for two elements: the voice of Michael Lonsdale performing in unprecedented registers and bodily sounds produced by the dancers. Added to this are throbbing metal, creaking wood, gurgling liquids and any substance relating to Rabelais' sound environment. Thus, virtual flesh, mysterious pharynx and imaginary mechanics compose for the ear a nightmarish saraband where the excess is appropriate.

Recording of Jorge Rapp's Biosfera una. In this piece natural sounds which are playing all around us are combines with the human beings that reside with it. This environment is accomplished by using sounds from nature, animals, and people and our continuous soundscapes. Contrast and camouflage relations prevail, where human voices become the foreground; these encounters culminates with guttural animal sounds.

Recording of Elio Martusciello's Limite inferiore sinistro. The matter of elimination, that is to say the sound of the rustle of a magnetic tape, constitutes the acoustic nature of this composition. The sole use of a tape recorder-mixer as a sound generator, gives a sufficient result for the creative operation, and ultimately to the gesture of the component. In all this hides a subtle complacency, a game of perspectives where this plan relegated to the bottom at the musical level and pushed further with the advent of new digital technologies, is here recovered and invested with a new dignity.

Recording of Kim Hedas' Good morning love, it's springtime in my heart! Although this piece's may give off a certain idea to the sound environment you would expect, the piece is harsh, contains unsettling sound, and unpredictable sound direction. With a very specific sound quality this piece explores the harmonies and the characteristics of metallic objects, sounds, or instruments.

Recording of Gliniak Bartlomiej's Neumo Progremodum. This work was composed in two stages: the beginning stage was creating synthetic sounds and the second stage would be electronically manipulating them. The technical processed includes digital sampling, digital sound synthesis, and electronic effect processors.

Recording of Juan Carlos Pampin's Apocalypse was postponed due to lack of interest. The title refers to an idea about the state of the art within the 19th century. Algorithms written with the COMMON LISP language controlled the rhythms and production of synthesis sounds to create different textures and densities. Sound generation techniques include: Karplus-Strong Modeled Attack, Additive Synthesis Generated Body and Filtered Noise Drop. The structure of the work is that of a continuous transformation where each object is condemned to mutate over time, these mutations take place in the short and long term during the piece.

Recording of Karl Friedrick Gerber's Beautiful Numbers. The work is a result of the composers experiments with algorithmic composition written with the "GFA Basic" language. The real-time improvisation program is controlled or "conducted" by altering numbers of preselected so called discrete vectors. These vectors represent states in the space of sequences formed by counting integer values in cycles. Various midi events are generated to control the sound modules. The piece was concerned for dance improvisation and has a very smooth flow with a mood of simple beautiful structures and intervals.

Recording of Augusto Valente's Triptyque pour I'avenir. This composition is for tape and based on the poem L'Avenir by Henri Michaux. The words being transformed beyond recognizability are the main factor of this piece. The challenge posed on the composer was to explore the boundaries between the text and using electronics to portray the text. There is a outlining of language occurring in the beginning with stuttering. Then with time the electronics use of manipulation create a journey of sound alteration.

Recording of Edmund J. Campoin's Losing touch. This work is for vibraphone solo and tape. The use of a pre-recorded vibraphone samples allowed for additional instruments through analysis and re-synthesis with the aid the IRCAM program. Then with the use of the Mosaic program, 50 tuned drum were created. The second aspect of the composition used Patchwork to isolate all of the numerical sets made from factors of 120. There numerical sets are used as durations. Additionally, Patchwork is used to analyze the database and isolate sets where the circular permutations of a rhymical placement and pre-designed harmony.

Recording of Mathew Adkins' Clothed in the Soft Horizon. The work presents a communitive interaction between electronically built sounds and the original unprocessed sounds, which are modelled after water droplets and the motion of a wave that builds, crashes, and breaks. This use of processed and unprocessed sound is the overall bas of the work and also the Spectro morphological design of many of the individual sounds. Overall, the work is both a physical representation of the flow and motion of the water and a personal response to it.

Recording of Simon Hall's Hit me! The main body of the piece is in two sections. The first is based on stretched and transpositions of the number of vocal and instrumental gestures, and the second is intentionally more abstract and less obviously derived from the source material. These sound materials derive from James Brown song samples. Then, the samples are developed using a variety of digital techniques to create an electroacoustic sound environment.

Recording of Jeffrey Hass' Liaisons. This piece uses traditional electronic technique and creates a futuristic sounding musical space.

Recording of Ron Averill's This is the sound of my dreams. Work for percussion, flute, and electronics. This work emphasizes communication between flute and percussion, while exploring differing sound textures with electronic processing and sounds.

Recording of Miklos Sugar's Pater noster. This work was composed for the female choir Musica Nostra and its choirmaster Zsuzsanna Mindszenty. The vocal material in the piece is comprised of four voices that undergo electronic transformation. The special effects were made by the YAMAHA REV5.

Recording of Elsa Justel's Feuillage de silence. The composer dedicates this work to his father who helped inspire the concept behind the piece. The composer compares the job of a musician to that of a gardener when honing their craft, by experimenting and manipulating nature in a non-destructive way in search of something beautiful.

Recording of Rajmil Fischman's Cold fire. This piece is the first of a cycle of three pieces for string quartet and tape. The tape part was produced at Keele University studios on a Composers’ Desktop Project system. Most of its material consists of two main sources - a recording of ice cubes falling into a glass of water and a blow-torch - which were manipulated and processed in order to create diverse textures as well as gestural material. In spite of its remote timbral origin, the tape interacts with the string quartet either by merging and enhancing spectral areas of its morphology or by providing contrasting rhythmic elements which act as counterpoint to the gestural discourse of the quartet. Cold Fire received 2nd prize ex aequo in the instruments and tape category of the First International Competition of Computer Music “Pierre Schaeffer,” Accademia Musicale Pescarese, 1998. It was issued on CD, MV001-1998-SIAE, Accademia Musicale Pescarese, Italy. Performances include the International Mediamix Weekend, York, 1996 (Vlns: Nicky Haire and Rachel Eaton; Vla: Clare Catchpole; Vlc: Peter Nicholson; Cond: Hector Macandrew) and the Australian Computer Music Association conference 1996, Queensland, Australia (Kiros quartet).

Recording of James Dashow's First Tangent to the Given Curve. This work is for piano and electronic sounds. The title of the work comes from an essay by Michel Serres, which captures rather nicely the sense of the music, the sense of the composition.The musical relationship between the computer and piano is rather precise. The pitches provide the basis for the sounds, which were created by the MUSIC30 software by the composer.

Recording of Hans Ulrich Humpert's Construction in micropolygons.

Recording of YeeOn Lo's Portrait of Timbre as a wild Wooddove. The composer describes this composition as having grown out of Gerard Hopkins' "Peace," which reads: "When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut / Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, when, Peace, will you, Peace?" The composer drew inspiration from Magritte's painting "La Grande Famille" (in which a huge "inverse" silhouette of the bird rising from a troubled, dark sea is depicted). Starting with random number sequences and the McGill instrument waveforms, the piece was composed using privately developed software.

Recording of Klaus Roder's Kristallisation 6. This work uses a small tape machine with voices, birds and kitchen noise are to be heard. A short, only a few seconds lasting part of this recording returns in continuously varied shapes. The original as well as electronically produced imitations of it are repeated constantly. Simultaneously new tones and sounds are added. So the repetition becomes accentuated in several ways. A special accent is given by the sounds of the 'Haaner Kirmes', a local fair, with its typical noise - its loudspeaker voices and noise of the engines of the roundabouts.